Most of the time new users make the mistake of paying lots of money for web hosting plans which they do not even need. If you are starting a WordPress blog and you’re shopping for a hosting service, my advice would be to get a shared hosting plan which is not only inexpensive but is also perfect for a new WordPress blog. Such a plan will be at least 50% less expensive than other forms of hosting such as managed WordPress hosting or VPS hosting.

If you are new to the WordPress blogging platform, you may initially find your options for choosing the right hosting company confusing.

Here at ShoutMeLoud, I continue to share tips which help other Shouters to create their perfect blogs. In this post, I will be sharing some quality tested WordPress hosting companies which should fit perfectly into your budget, whatever your budget may be!

Back in 2008 when I started Blogging, I began with a self-hosted WordPress blog on a shared hosting server. In time, as my site traffic increased, I moved to a better server, and then later moved on to VPS, and then back again to shared hosting! So on my journey, I experienced various hosting options, all of which have given me a great foundation from which to offer my recommendations to you.

I was once a “newbie” in the online world myself, so I know that it is helpful to create a post containing lists of good, inexpensive options that a new blogger can refer to when starting an online career. In the following paragraphs, I will offer just such a list, allowing you to see your various options and the cost (or lack of cost!) associated with each.

Reliable & Cheap WordPress Hosting Companies:

Here I will list only those WordPress hosting companies which are perfect for WordPress sites and are used by millions of WordPress users worldwide. These hosting services are globally renowned and are popular in social media spheres for their quality services.

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Bluehost

Siteground

InMotion Hosting

Bluehost is the top recommended Webhosting service for hosting a WordPress blog, and it is also the most affordable service available to you. They offer various hosting packages, or you can simply grab their shared hosting plan (Prime) which offers unlimited resources and one free domain at the cost of $5.95/month. (A special discounted link is added below.)

What makes BlueHost the best choice among cheap WordPress hosting is their offering. They offer Free SSL certificate which is a crucial search engine ranking factor. Apart from this, they have an in-built caching mechanism which is very effective and help you load your WordPress blog faster. None the less, you have to deal with one less plugin with their in-built endurance caching technology. Recently, Bluehost has revamped their dashboard and added new tools that will effectively let you manage your WordPress site.

Below image is taken from Bluehost Dashboard and you can see that various WordPress settings which could be configured directly from Bluehost dashboard.

I have four WordPress blogs hosted on Bluehost, and many of them are seeing the traffic of close to 10,000 hits per day, and yet Bluehost ensures that my sites never go down!

I am currently using Siteground for few of my niche WordPress blogs, and while it is certainly not the cheapest hosting service on the list, their outstanding support and server quality make them definite stand-outs in the game.

Siteground offers various hosting packages, but for a beginner, I would suggest starting with a shared hosting package for WordPress, one of the more reliable PHP/MySQL hosting packages.

Siteground shared hosting service offers the following shared hosting packages with discounted prices after applying the coupon code:

Startup: One website hosting

Growbig: Unlimited site hosting & most popular plan

Grow Geek: Free private IP + Private SSL

Siteground is one of the few hosting services which also offer reseller hosting, VPS, and dedicated servers. This makes it easier for clients to quickly upgrade to a higher server package when their site’s traffic increases.

InMotion Hosting is a Los Angeles based Web-hosting company which is popular for their excellent customer support & server quality. They are a non-EIG hosting company that offers unlimited hosting storage + bandwidth. What I like most about them is their friendly support & especially for one who is looking to host WordPress website in U.S.A, InMotion Hosting is an idle choice.

These are the best inexpensive (cheap!) WordPress hosting services currently available to you at the time of the writing of this point. These can be purchased at a super affordable price, and they offer good reliable quality service.

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i think free hosting sounds good but not for pro bloggers ,who have large amount of readers, free hosting can be down any time and they are not reponsible for that coz u never paid fr tht so u cn’t claim anything.
But howevr if you are a very begineer than you can start with it. Best of luck.

Great list of the hosting plans. From my personal experience, I will recommend HostGator hosting plan. I am using HostGator Hatchling plan for the last 4 years and I did not face any issue with this hosting provider.

I prefer Bluehost web host, Good and cheap.. Also With Bluehsot’s claims of 99.99% uptime backed by similar reviews of site owners who have used their hosting plans, this service provider appears to have delivered the most important feature effectively.

I think Hostgator is best among those, but can never recommend Hostgator India to anyone, because of their pathetic quality of service. By the way really informative explanation.
Also, if this is all about WordPress hosting, then cloud hosting providers like DigitalOcean, Linode etc., can also be taken into the consideration, if one have little bit knowledge of managing the cloud servers, as they provide direct installation of WordPress, cheaper and can handle way more traffic than the regular hosting.
Regards!

I am a newbie in blogging world. Its almost been a year I am using WordPress.com but want to switch over .org. But little confuse what to choose for web hosting and a free domain providers. Looking into Hostgator but stuck with “Hosting Addons”. The Hostgator is charging $35 for this srvice.

Hi Harsh, Thank you for so much information, however I do not understand the part where for Siteground you mention 1 Year free domain registration – this seems to be vague. When I go through your affiliate link, it does offer me 3.95 USD but charges me for domain registration. Need to understand this. Thank You.

Harsh, I’ve been using Godaddy’s WordPress Hosting now for almost a year! I am using a WordPress Managed Hosting plan with them, which I had a huge discount up front with them to start. As I get close to renewal, I am looking at different options,
With my current plan, when it renew its will be $7.99USD per month with the following:
-10GB (Plenty for one wordpress site)
-25,000 mthly visitors (not even close to that, but this year I am going to blog more)
Should I stick with Godaddy or switch to bluehost? Seems to be cheaper and I would have more space and visitors, and could even host more sites.

I am using WordPress.com but want to switch over .org. But little confuse what to choose for web hosting and a free domain providers. Looking into Host gator but stuck with “Hosting Ad dons”. The Host gator is charging for this service.

After many strikeouts, including Bluehost, HostGator, GoDaddy, a small orange, and finally… drum roll please… I’ve landed on site ground as my very favorite means of hosting.

Truthfully when it comes to time spent unbreaking hosting – we turn to site ground for everything.

This is extremely helpful content, thanks for writing it!

Funny thing about cheap WordPress hosting, I always like to ask my clients if they have the time to go another route, the unmanaged services route. I always like to roll up a great example of bad hosting and I always point to BBB claims first.

Regrettably, there’s no requirement to take a support role at most of these hosting firms, so when it comes to hosting, it’s extremely easy to be steered the wrong way.

Glad there’s intelligent information out there telling the truth. Now I don’t feel alone on my blog!

Hey Harsh, Great Article, You have mention various hosting plan. Please solve my problem, I usually get 150 to 200 user online daily at a time, I’m using hostgator shared hosting plan. but they usually show 500 internal error when i get huge user online at a time. so kindly suggest me good Hosting service or any VPS.

btw. Your article is quite good. I’ve just asked my question here because i know you can solve my problem

@Gautam
You should first focus on optimizing your blog.
Are you using any cache plugin?
Are you using CLoudflare?
Are you using CDN?
Have you optimized your database?
Have you disabled non-essential plugin or plugins which have not been updated in past few years.

The good post got a valuable knowledge about a various hosting plan. This article will help us to handle the client because the article consists of all the cheap WordPress hosting platform. I was thinking to switch over my current WordPress platform and it was little confusing for me to choose the web hosting. But now I got a clear idea about Host Gator and its service. It seems to more cheaper and has space for visitors too. Let’s see this Host Gator will help in the future

I’ve been using HostGator and GoDaddy and I definitely think HostGator is superior. It’s easier to use and also for setting up WordPress. I also find that they have better customer support. I am looking for a third option for a new project and I think I might give WpWebHost a try. Thanks.

Hi, Harsh! I really liked your article. In fact I think there are also other hosts that offer reliable services at decent price, and without setup fees. From my personal experience i can say that with its secure WordPress hosting plans, BGOcloud is a great option as well.